All things considered, it’s a bit of a miracle that this Edward Killingsworth-designed house in Long Beach even exists. So when it hit the market in 2013, potential buyers were looking to go with the original plan: tear it down. Instead, Kelly and Ted Hyman appeared to fulfill a different type of destiny. They toured several Killingsworth homes, his office building, then drove to Santa Barbara to recover the original seven-page plan for the house. “Every time we came to an impasse on what to do, we didn’t move forward until we came to an agreement,” says Kelly.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 15, 2016 12:45 UTC